Title:History and foreign policy in France and Germany
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Author(s):KROTZ, UlrichDate:2015Citation:Houndmills ; Basingstoke ; Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Type:BookAbstract:Why do states similar in size, resources and capabilities significantly differ in their basic orientations and actions across major domains in foreign policy, security and defense? This book addresses this important question ...

Title:Holy Ignorance. When Religion and Culture Part Ways
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Author(s):ROY, OlivierDate:2010Citation:New York, Columbia University Press, 2010Type:BookAbstract:Olivier Roy finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and sociocultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a ...

Title:How Europeans view and evaluate democracy
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Editor(s):FERRÍN, Mónica; KRIESI, HanspeterDate:2016Citation:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016, Comparative politicsType:BookAbstract:Based on a new data-set covering 29 European and neighboring countries, this volume shows how, Europeans view and evaluate democracy: what are their conceptions of democracy, how do they assess the quality of democracy in ...

Title:How to Democratize the European Union... And why bother?
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Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2000Citation:Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000, Governance in EuropeType:BookAbstract:A contradictory creation indeed, the European Union has most of the institutions of a modern democracy, yet it does not function as one. Moreover, its growing scope of activity and supranational decision making processes ...

Title:How will capitalism end? : essays on a failing system
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Author(s):STREECK, WolfgangDate:2016Citation:London ; New York : Verso, 2016Type:BookAbstract:The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper. After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; ...